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Not to say that @siracusa.social is wrong but I‘m using a coding agent in a Zig project and filled up my disk to the point where I was getting syscall errors saying that there was no space. macOS seemed to handle it like a champ. (I...
A long journey this morning to the eastern edge of the Cotswolds with Glorious Grasslands to a major new site for the project. It’s in an extremely remote, and beautiful corner, so I was mightily surprised to see many cars in the field...
When we build agents, we often want to give them the ability to browse the web: open webpages, navigate from one page to the other, and read the content of a webpage. By combining Pydantic AI with the Playwright capability from Pydantic...
Having just done two little postings on brief subjects this morning, I’m now going to wade into a few somewhat meatier subjects that have the potential to explode into larger matters of some weight. The first of these came to me in tv...
Disclaimer Previously… Cardassians Conclusions The Bad The Weird Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise...
I haven’t been on my phone very much lately, let alone properly online. I actually think this might be the least time i’ve spent online in my entire life, which is strange considering how much of my life used to revolve around the...
Heads up for you blog-reading types: I’ll be teaming up with my friend Mike Monteiro next Friday (August 28th!) to offer an info-packed 90-minute online workshop on MAKIN’ BOOKS. Mike and I have decades of combined experience crafting...
Better Batteries Aug 20, 2026 One of the eternal schisms in programming is over the question of whether the standard library should be minimal or encompassing. This is the wrong question to ask. The right one is: Which social...
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. They may rationalize it in this or that way, but they shake off the fetters and allow nature to touch them....
Long-time readers of this blog know that The Monkees is my favourite sitcom of all time and The Monkees are one of my favourite bands of all time. I am then very happy to report that for the first time ever The Monkees is on streaming....
Lots of steady rain today for the first time in what must be a couple of months if not longer. The lawn was properly soaked. Been feeling a bit tired in the head today. Mental activities needed extra effort and result in fuzziness and a...
I am currently 8 sessions into running this campaign for some people on the glog server. It's been eye-opening running games again, and I thought I'd do some reflection on how it's going, to get my thoughts in order. The first thing to...
I am a slow adopter of new technologies. I have recently been playing around with AI at a very basic level on some research problems. Colleagues are also telling me about their experiences. I want to write something about its potential,...
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